F5 Networks announced new
hardware platforms for F5 ARX file
virtualization solutions. With the launch of the ARX1500 and ARX2500
appliances, the ARX product line continues to offer compelling performance
capabilities for enterprise organizations.
The new platforms provide small and mid-sized
enterprises with advanced data management capabilities at attractive price
points, along with superior scalability and performance levels.
In today’s rapidly digitizing economy, small
and mid-sized enterprises are dealing with exploding amounts of digital content
and a growing range of data management challenges,” said Richard Villars, VP of
Storage and IT Executive Strategies, IDC.
Solutions like F5’s new ARX products take
advantage of advanced file virtualization to help IT teams boost the
performance and reduce the administrative burden of their file-based storage
assets,” Richard added.
F5 ARX solutions
enable organizations to simplify and scale their data management
infrastructures by eliminating the static mapping between client and storage
resources. With F5’s unique file virtualization capabilities, organizations can access and seamlessly
migrate data between resources as demand dictates, and without impacting users
or requiring downtime.
In addition, ARX’s automated storage
tiering and global namespace functions help enterprises develop a strategy that fits
their storage growth requirements at the lowest possible costs.
Traditionally, organizations have followed a
model of adding more storage equipment as data management needs outgrew
capacity. However, many organizations found that expensive, high performance
storage devices would be required to expand their existing infrastructure
models, due in part to the difficulty in identifying and separating high and
low priority data files.
With ARX’s storage tiering capabilities,
organizations can designate high performance storage resources for their most
important or most frequently accessed data.
ARX’s ability to manage data across different
devices in a unified storage environment enables organizations to utilize less
expensive devices for general storage, maximizing the efficiency of existing
systems and alleviating the need to purchase new devices as frequently.
By enhancing the ARX series, F5 is
strengthening the product line’s value proposition, accommodating
organizations’ requirements today and supporting their data management needs as
they grow.
Small enterprises enjoy dramatically
increased scale and performance capabilities with the ARX1500. For medium-sized
storage environments, the ARX2500 platform includes support for 10
Gigabit Ethernet network infrastructures.
The combination of scale, performance, and
price in the new hardware platforms will enable an expanded class of
enterprises to leverage the data management benefits of file virtualization,”
said Anil Pochiraju, managing director, F5 Networks.
ARX continues to be the industry’s only
solution that provides true data mobility and automated data management
policies for heterogeneous storage environments, and we’re excited to bring
these new products to market,” Anil added.
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